Saratoga Horse Racing Tickets

Saratoga Race Course has been given two nick names Graveyard of Champions and The Spa. In the past one of the most powerful and swift horses of the world has been taking part in the Saratoga Horse Racing including longshot Jim Dandy, Secretariat, Gallant Fox and Man o' War. Man o’ War was defeated only once in the 21 races in which he participated at Saratoga after winning the Triple Crown. In an extremely exhilarating race between longshot Jim Dandy and Gallant Fox that took place in the year 1930 in one of the most popular racing tournaments of the time called the Travers Stakes.

Saratoga Horse Racing is popular not only in America rather in all those countries of the world where horse racing takes place Saratoga occupies the first place. In the year 1999 it became the tenth best sport of the twentieth century. Saratoga Horse Racing is organized by the New York Racing Association Aqueduct and Belmont Park. There are three different race tracks in the venue. First, is the main dirt track which is 1 1?8 mile long and 1,811 m in circumference. The second track is one mile long with ninety eight feet outer turf track. This turf is called the Mellon Turf Course as it is named after the Mellon family who have been famous for being the Thoroughbred owner including Andrew Mellon who was also a United States Treasury Secretary and also Paul Mellon. The third track has an inner turf track which was twenty six feet long in circumference.

Steeplechase races have also been an important part of the Saratoga Horse Racing and each race depends upon the course of the race. Apart from all the three tracks there is also a track called the Oklahoma Training Track which is used for warm-ups and training sessions. The racing takes place in a venue that is replete with traditional racing monuments. There is a lake in the middle of the track and it contains a canoe. This canoe is painted in the colors of the stable of the Travers Stakes, once in a year.

Saratoga Horse Racing will take you in a world where the best horses in the country present a spectacle before you that will keep you excited till the end. Saratoga Horse Racing Tickets will enable you to witness an outstanding event like no other.